From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:06:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash: offer to show (un)staged changes Message-ID: <200901191306.49979.bss@iguanasuicide.net> In-Reply-To: <46a038f90901191000i250326e7k2184c149b70fcc8d@mail.gmail.com> On Monday 2009 January 19 12:00:10 Martin Langhoff wrote: >On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> ... If we had >> an inotify sort of daemon to keep the data current so the prompt >> doesn't have to stat every source file on every display it would >> be reasonable, but we don't have such a thing yet for Git. > >[T]he kernel's cache will outperform any userland >attempting to keep track of the fs via inotify. Really? Why have inotify then? I thought its only purpose is "to keep track of the fs". If it is never a net win, why even use/provide it? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/